Single-player games like Highlands, Deep Waters
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Highlands, Deep Waters, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Fallen Hero: Rebirth
Single-player alternative to Highlands, Deep Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highlands, Deep Waters.
They called you a hero; you call them fools. Use your telepathy romance old friends and fight new enemies as you become the greatest villain Los Diablos has ever known!
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Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One
Single-player alternative to Highlands, Deep Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highlands, Deep Waters.
Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.
- 3
Innsmouth 22
Single-player alternative to Highlands, Deep Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highlands, Deep Waters.
In this visual novel the main character, Lorenzo Righi, an Italian Professor, is invited to a meeting of History Scholars held in Boston. Excited and flattered by the invitation, he discovers that something else, hidden and mysterious, awaits for him.
- 4
Blackout: The Darkest Night
Single-player alternative to Highlands, Deep Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highlands, Deep Waters.
You have been part of something terrible, something so unspeakable that caused you to blackout and forget all the events from the past few days. Now you are faced with the choice of going after the truth, facing the shadows that hide within our world, or trying to forget and leave all this behind.
- 5
Stronghold: A Hero's Fate
Single-player alternative to Highlands, Deep Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highlands, Deep Waters.
Defend your stronghold from invading monsters and lead your people to glory! Rule your territory, punish your enemies, and build a legacy.
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Cthulhu Mythos ADV The Isle Of Ubohoth
Single-player alternative to Highlands, Deep Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highlands, Deep Waters.
A horror dice roll adventure inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos. Much like in a tabletop RPG, "abilities," "luck," and "dice rolls" influence the story's progression. The protagonist is cursed on an island in the Seto Inland Sea. Investigate the island, uncover the mysteries, and break the curse!
- 7
Choice of Magics
Single-player alternative to Highlands, Deep Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highlands, Deep Waters.
Your magic can change the world, but at what cost? Battle dragons, skyships, and evil Inquisitors, as you protect your homeland, conquer it, or destroy it forever!
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Monster Loves You!
Single-player alternative to Highlands, Deep Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highlands, Deep Waters.
Live the life of a Monster, from birth to elderhood and beyond, making decisions that affect the world of Monsters and Humans. Solve problems. Meet animals and interesting people. Get to know them. Eat them. Make your own story!
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Fallen Hero: Retribution
Single-player alternative to Highlands, Deep Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highlands, Deep Waters.
So you're a villain now? Let's see if you survive the experience.
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Tin Star
Single-player alternative to Highlands, Deep Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Highlands, Deep Waters.
Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal in the biggest interactive novel ever made! Confront outlaws, find romance, defy the elements, and craft an enduring legend as you uncover a conspiracy whose deadly web stretches from San Francisco to New York City.
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Community College Hero: Trial by Fire
Single-player alternative to Highlands, Deep Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Highlands, Deep Waters.
Outwit your professors at superpower school! Ace your exams, date classmates, and bring down the nation’s most wanted villains to earn your degree.
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Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven
Single-player alternative to Highlands, Deep Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highlands, Deep Waters.
Zombies rise again at the dawn of Apocalypse! In this companion to the smash-hit Zombie Exodus, can you survive the early days of society's collapse?
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Lords of Infinity
Single-player alternative to Highlands, Deep Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Highlands, Deep Waters.
Lead an ancient and crumbling noble house in a rich gunpowder fantasy setting. Lie, bribe, and conspire to secure power and prestige – or to save a doomed kingdom from itself.
- 14
Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Two
Single-player alternative to Highlands, Deep Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highlands, Deep Waters.
Under the lights of the carnival, will romance and adventure bloom anew? The quiet town of Wayhaven is once again the center of supernatural occurrences.